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The Atlanta Hawks have locked in Jalen Johnson for the future, as they agreed to a fully guaranteed, five-year extension with the forward, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania. “Atlanta Hawks forward Jalen Johnson has agreed to a five-year, $150 million rookie contract extension with the franchise, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul and representative Lucas Newton […]

The Atlanta Hawks currently have several trade candidates on their roster in advance of the 2024-25 season, with two of the only players definitely safe from such talks being Trae Young and Jalen Johnson. Young had an up and down preseason for the squad with some turnover difficulties but Johnson impressed during a recent game […]

The Atlanta Hawks will be coming into the season looking for a player that will complement Trae Young. The past two seasons, Dejounte Murray was that player, but it didn’t produce the results that the Hawks wanted, which warranted a trade. This season, the Hawks will be looking internally for the player Young’s co-star, and […]

With the NBA schedule officially released, one thing that’s for certain is that every team will be playing each other at some point during the season. The one thing that’s not for certain is how those teams will perform, which makes things interesting. For the Atlanta Hawks, they finished last season with a 36-46 record […]

One of the most exciting times of the NBA offseason is the release of the new schedule. The Atlanta Hawks will be going into the season with a different team after the Dejounte Murray experiment did not work out the past two years. Murray was traded to the New Orleans Pelicans for Dyson Daniels, Larry […]

On Wednesday evening, Trae Young and the Atlanta Hawks saw a disastrous 2023-24 season come to a blissful end with a road demolition at the hands of the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the NBA Play-In Tournament. While they weren’t exactly championship favorites heading into the year, the expectation was that the Hawks […]

The Atlanta Hawks’ 2023-24 season is officially in the books. They gave way to the Chicago Bulls in the bottom half of the Eastern Conference Play-In Tournament and lost 131-116. It was a very disappointing season for the Hawks after they pushed the Boston Celtics to six games in the playoffs last year. But now […]

The Atlanta Hawks have had a disappointing 2023-24 season, and now, it looks more likely that their season will end in the play-in tournament given the unfortunate developments they’ve had on the injury front. According to NBA insider Marc Stein, two of the Hawks’ most crucial frontcourt players, Jalen Johnson and Onyeka Okongwu, will be […]

Jalen Johnson is reportedly expected to return from injury on Monday night against the Chicago Bulls, per Shams Charania of The Athletic. The Atlanta Hawks forward has not played since March 18 due to a sprained ankle. Johnson has impressed throughout the 2023-24 season. The Hawks are just 34-40, but they are still in the […]

The Atlanta Hawks are getting some murky news ahead of a key Saturday showdown with the Milwaukee Bucks. Jalen Johnson was ruled out for the game due to a right ankle sprain. Jalen Johnson’s injury status vs. Bucks Prior to Saturday’s game, Johnson has missed five straight matches for Atlanta, and the team needs him […]

Earlier this week, Dejounte Murray and the Atlanta Hawks put together perhaps the most surprising two-game stretch of this entire NBA season by defeating the Boston Celtics–who own the NBA’s best record by a country mile–two times in a row in the friendly confines of State Farm Arena in Atlanta. First, on Monday, the Hawks […]

Health has been a major factor in the Atlanta Hawks’ inability to find success this season. Not only has All-Star Trae Young been shut down after undergoing finger surgery in February, but now the Hawks are once again dealing with an injury to breakout forward Jalen Johnson. In Monday night’s game against the Los Angeles […]

On Monday evening, Jalen Johnson and the Atlanta Hawks took the floor at the Crypto.com Arena to take on LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. Although the Hawks were utterly dominated for four quarters, Johnson made his presence known in the City of Angels with several emphatic dunks, including most notably a poster jam […]

Monday’s matchup against the Atlanta Hawks could not have started any uglier for Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves, as he was emphatically dunked on by Jalen Johnson within the first 20 seconds of the game. Johnson pulled off a Dunk of the Year contender, taking advantage of Reaves’ ill-advised attempt to draw a charge. […]

One of the (very) few bright spots for the Atlanta Hawks this year has been the play of third-year power forward Jalen Johnson, who has blossomed into arguably the team’s second-best player this year behind only Trae Young. Johnson is currently out of the lineup as he deals with an ankle injury, but the former […]

On Wednesday evening, the shorthanded Atlanta Hawks picked up a home win over the equally shorthanded Cleveland Cavaliers in a game that was largely overshadowed by an injury sustained by forward Jalen Johnson early in the third quarter. On the play, Johnson appeared to roll his ankle, and the Hawks elected to keep him out […]

It has been a rather tumultuous season for the Atlanta Hawks. After looking like a team on the up and up following a competitive 2023 first-round series against the Boston Celtics, the Hawks have scuffled to the tune of a 27-34 record entering their Wednesday night contest against the Cleveland Cavaliers. They were already without […]

Just a week remains before the 2024 NBA trade deadline and basketball fans have Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski on notifications as they await some blockbuster deals to go down. NBA fans could probably expect to see breaking news on the Atlanta Hawks, who have been in trade talks for the majority of the campaign. […]

The Atlanta Hawks have failed thus far to crack the upper echelon of the Eastern Conference, falling off the pace by lagging seven games behind .500 entering their Wednesday night matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers. For a while, it looked like the Hawks were going to fall to 14-22 on the season, with the 76ers […]

There might be no organization that has been more immersed in trade rumors over the past few seasons than the Atlanta Hawks. They have still managed to stay unpredictable to this point, but could the time for a mass roster overhaul finally be upon us? Recent betting odds predict the Los Angeles Lakers and New […]

While the Atlanta Hawks are losing De’Andre Hunter for a few weeks due to a knee injury, they’re set to get a key player back in the lineup when they face the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday. Youngster Jalen Johnson will return after missing a month with a wrist injury, according to Shams Charania of The […]

The Atlanta Hawks have been playing better since going on a five-game losing streak to start the month of December but are still unequivocally one of the season’s biggest disappointments to this point. They are 12-16 and reside in 11th place in the Eastern Conference. Difficult decisions will have to be made if there is […]

The Atlanta Hawks have hovered around the middle to upper tier of the East for quite some time now, and guard Trae Young has been arguably the biggest driving force. Young is a three-point sniper extraordinaire and a thinking man’s player who has a keen eye for talent around the league. In 2021 the Hawks […]

If there is one characteristic that makes the Atlanta Hawks a solid team and one that has a chance to assert itself this season, it is their ability to outscore opponents. They have an excellent offensive team, as they are averaging 123.2 points per game, which is second in the NBA to the Indiana Pacers. […]

One of the brightest young stars of the 2023-24 NBA season is going to be sidelined for an extended period of time due to injury. Atlanta Hawks forward Jalen Johnson will be sidelined for 4-6 weeks due to a wrist injury, according to Shams Charania. Hawks forward Jalen Johnson is expected to miss 4-to-6 weeks […]

Jalen Johnson has been a breakout player for the Atlanta Hawks during the 2023-24 season. With John Collins gone, Johnson has stepped up to be his team’s starting power forward and he’s suddenly emerged as a key talent that impacts winning. Facing the Washington Wizards on Saturday night, Johnson was forced to leave the game […]

The Atlanta Hawks have looked like a much better team to begin the 2023-24 season, with head coach Quin Snyder doing wonders for a team that had gone stale over the past two seasons. Snyder, armed with plenty of experience in how to make a backcourt with two players in need of the ball sing […]

On Friday evening, the Atlanta Hawks took on the New York Knicks in what was the second game of the season for both teams. While the Hawks got out of the gates slowly, things picked up quite a bit when backup power forward Jalen Johnson produced a highlight that had both the Knicks and Hawks […]

The NBA season is officially underway and opening week carries on with an out-of-conference matchup between the New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks. Our NBA odds series continues with a Knicks-Hawks prediction and pick. After almost pulling off a fantastic opening night upset over the Boston Celtics, the New York Knicks enter this matchup at […]

Atlanta Hawks small forward Jalen Johnson has been putting in work this offseason. Johnson has spent time training with NBA legend LeBron James, and the Hawks forward recently recounted his experience and what he learned from the King. “Before the workout, seeing how he goes about his business,” Johnson said, per the AJC. “Just once […]

The Atlanta Hawks, led by Trae Young, have definitely underperformed since shocking the world by making the Eastern Conference Finals in 2021. The Hawks saw it fit to shake up their roster with the addition of All-Star guard Dejounte Murray to try and bolster their 26th ranked defense last season that proved to be too […]